Letter: Something very disturbing drives Islam

Wednesday

Jan 9, 2019 at 12:01 AM

Over the past few years, too many have ignored the acute threat of Muslim violence, insisting it is only extremists who hope to silence critics of Islam believing this will placate Muslims and keep future events from spinning out of control.

This approach has had the side effect of rendering those practicing free speech more afraid than is warranted and sends the wrong message to Muslims in the U.S. and in all of the Middle East. Far too many Islam-inspired murders have been trivialized to ignore the threat of Islam and its basic ideology to world peace.

Islamic dogma cannot be called "peaceful." Its basic doctrine is the opposite. The true deviants to Islam are those Muslims who do practice peace and they are not in the majority of Muslims. Those individuals should establish a religion outside of the Koran to repudiate the Islam that exists in the Middle East. Perhaps they should call it "Christianity."

The excuses for Islamic extremism have gone on long enough, yet most Muslims ignore this cancer within their own religion. One has only to look at the dark history of Islam since its inception to sense that something very disturbing drives this religion. Not the least of which is the sinister threat to free speech.

James Noles, Winter Haven

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